Lway-frog



(No Model.)

' W. G. MEEKER.

RAILWAY FROG.

,784. Patented Jan. 2,1894.

/////7zV/// Milli/Al I A I *WITNEEEE TUE NAYIONAL LITNOGRAFKING FDMFANY WASHINGTON D C Unease Snares FATENT @rrrca WALTER C. MEEKER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEtV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE LEWVIS do FOiVLElt GIRDER-RAIL COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

RAILWAY-FROG.

5PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,784, dated January 2, 1894.

Application filed November 27, 1891- Serial No. 413,210. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: which the crown extends out over the web on Be it known that I, ALTER O. MEEKER, of each side as is the case in the T-rail. Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and In the rails shown in the drawings a is the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and tread or crown of the rail, 5 is the guard and 5 useful Railway Frog or Crossing, not heretothe groove, and d d are vertical or subfore known or used; and I hereby declare the stantially vertical webs or girders. The rail following to be a full and clear description of B is cut away from the bottom upward at the same, reference being had to the acconiright angles to the line of the under side of panying drawings. the head and at a point where the correspond My invention relates to that portion of the ing sides of the rails intersect, and then at a 60 road-bed of a railway where one rail crosses right angle along the web to a point about another. his more particularly designed for two inches beyond where it will intersect the use as a frog or crossing in tracks intended web or girder of the other rail when in posifor street cars to run over and to be made tion as shown in the drawings, Fig. 2. The I5 from the class of rails known as box girderportion of the webs or girders of the rail B 65 when thus out are bent outward to the proper The construction of myfrog or crossing will angle to lie along and bear against the webs be more readily understood by reference to the or sides of the rail A when the two rails are accompanying drawings, in whichfitted together, and may be either bolted or Figure 1, is a perspective View of a corn riveted to the sides of the railA. These bent 7o pleted frog, embodying my invention. Fig. portions of the webs or girders of the rail B 2, 1s a view from the under side of the same are designated bytheletters O, O, in the drawfrog. Fig. 3, is same as Fig. 2 with narrow ings. To reinforce the intersection a plate base plate. Fig. 4, is same as Fig. 3 with P, Fig. 3, is laid along the under side of the wide plate shownin position. Fig. 5 is abotrail A, extending across the part of the rail 75 tom View of the rail B. Fig. 6 is a side view B which is at that point included in the width of the rail A showing how it is cut away. of the rail A, and the plate P is riveted or Figs. '7 and 8 are sectional detail views showbolted to both rails. The crown and guard -1ng a car-wheel above the intersection of the of the rail B are cut away as shown in Fig. 1 o rails. to allow free passage for the flange of the 80 One object of my invention is to make the wheel. frog or crossing with two pieces of rail, one D isafillingpiece of metal laid in the groove piece being laid on and halved into the other of the rail for the flange of the wheel to bear instead of constructing the same of several on when passing through the frog to prevent small pieces of rail joined together. it dropping where the crown of the rail is cut 85 A and B are the two rails forming the frog, away. In some cases I use a plate E, Fig. 4, which may preferably be of the peculiar patwide enough to extend under the bottom of tern of box girder-rail shown in Fig. 1. both rails, so that they rest upon and are se- Pret'erably the frog is constructed by cutcured to it. If deemed advisable the frog 40 ting a channel across the head of railA of the may be further strengthened by bent irons 0 width of the other rail B at the proper angle of G G to fit either the acute or obtuse angles the frog desired and cutting the under side of formed between the rails A and B, or both, the rail B at the proper angle and of sufficient secured thereto as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. depth to bring the crowns of the two rails on The bent irons G G are bolted or riveted fast the same 1evel,in the manner hereinafter deto the girders or webs cl d, and in case the 5 scribed. bent portions 0 should be broken or cutaway Different shapes and styles of rail are said bent irons or angle plates will serve to adapted to be used in inakingmy frog,but the hold the parts of the frog together. crown should be even with the supporting I do not intend to confine myself to the Y 5 web as distinguished from those styles in construction, only when applied to the par- I00 ticular form of hollow rail shown, as other forms ofhollow rail may be used and the essential points of my invention retained.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A railway frog composed of the rails A and B, halved together, the web of one of said rail's being cut and bent, instead of being entirely cut away, so as to bear against the outside of the web of the other rail, and secured thereto, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a railway-frog constructed of box girder-rails, the combination of the top rail continuous at top excepting a shallow intersection notch or notches, with an adjoining rail, the two rails being connected at their intersection by means of the web of one of the rails being detached only at the top and at one end on each side of the rail so as to form oppositely projecting flaps, and being attached to the adjoining web of the other rail.

3. In a railway-frogor crossing composed of two box girder-rails halved together, the plate P laid along the under side of said rail A, and beneath the crossing portion of rail B and secured to both rails, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. 1n a railway-frog constructed of box girder-rails, the two rails formed with a high guard opposed to the tread of the rail so as to form a deep and well guarded groove, the combination of a rail continuous at top except a shallow intersecting notch or notches with an adjoining rail, the two rails being connected at their intersection, and filling-pieces secured in the channels or grooves of said rails, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a railway frog or crossing two box girder-rails each cut away, or halved together,

WALT. C. MEEKER.

Witnesses:

A. BELL MALooMsoN, A. A. MEEKER. 

